Word: blackmailer
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...dear, give me your coat. . . . Please rise a moment, will you, dear? . . . You golden-voiced gal. . . . How about a little loving?" Evelyn thought he was just irresistible, yielded herself with hardly a struggle. It was not long, however, before she discovered he was a bad number. When he threatened blackmail she shot him. Another woman was arrested. Evelyn got Husband John to take the case; he got the woman off. Evelyn, no longer bored, appreciated her blessings more than ever...
...woman cousin. Total murders: about twelve. Travelers on the road between Ajaccio and Sopigna paid him tribute as a matter of course. In 1931 when Depression-hit Corsicans asked for a reduced tribute, he ended the quibble by ducally closing the road for two months. Other income: extortion, blackmail. To this local boy who had made good rallied many an ambitious young Corsican. On the grounds that he mulcted the rich, he was popular with the poor...
...stroke of policy." the Duke of Northumberland's Morning Post warned against a "disorderly race of currency depreciation." The angriest shriek came from the Financial News: "Wilful sabotage could not go much further. . . . The whole business has been deliberately planned in cold blood as a piece of diplomatic blackmail...
...CASE OF THE VELVET CLAWS- Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Cynical Lawyer Mason, faithful only to his clients, balances murder with blackmail, earns...
...CASE OF THE APRIL FOOLS-Christopher Bush-Morrow ($2). Ludovic Travers sees jest turned to murder. Blackmail leads to double death...